"A family located in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and qualified educator to support their smallest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might readily overlook the wording "beginning" as mere an expression.
Yet, it could be the most significant aspect of this unusual position posting, as it aims to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have since been sent in since the anonymous family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has received interest throughout the press, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their hunt, stated that despite initial skepticism, he found the concept "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he noted they recognized the unconventional nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had by then set in".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family told him they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they wish to instil.
He explained the tutor must be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
More than that though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son become a "British gentleman" will lead to accomplishment and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by in any case?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who express those reservations.
Peter Cui, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from Asia to the UK at the time of childhood, and had been educated understanding and embodying dual heritages. He went on to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, an individual who can possibly impart the attributes of a English gentleman to a 12-month-old child, appears naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"In my experience, engaging a typically British tutor from infancy will not instantly create the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to live many of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"I think the reality that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
